Re post: Big Things Starts from Smaller Ones

When I was in high school, I thought that prepositions were just single-worded part of speech that is why they are really dangerous especially in academic writing. I found out that there were some kind called "complex prepositions" that were not single-worded one. Complex prepositions are a word group that functions as a single preposition that may be two-word or three-word.

Some examples are:

  In addition to single-word preposition, there are others called complex preposition.

  She is a great composer  as well as  a great Musical Director.

  There are garbage  in front of  the door.

DID YOU KNOW THAT. .?

Some English & Language Trivia to brighten up your day!

• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters
  mt.
• Los Angeles’s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
  Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be
  abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
• The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe. 
• The word set has more definitions than any other word in the
  English language.
• Underground is the only word in the English language that
  begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• There are only four words in the English language which end
  in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, andhazardous.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
  screeched.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the
  Oxford English Dictionary,
  is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  The only other word with the same amount of letters is
  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that
  contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
  therein the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Does the sporting goods store REI count too?
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
  left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
• The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different
  ways.The following sentence contains them all “A rough-coated,
  dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
  after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• The word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase
  “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

From: http://www.tomisimo.org/blog/2006/language-learning/english-trivia/

Happy new year everyone!

Mikko Ong (08-07976)

Time Well Wasted

> English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

If you are bored and don't have anything better to do, I suggest you read this poem. I found it surprisingly fun. I swelled with pride when I saw difficult words that I knew how to pronounce, and I searched the dictionary in defeat when I had no idea what some of the words meant. I had fun reading this poem and learned some new words along the way. For me, that is a perfect definition for "a time well wasted".

-Jonathan Kenn S. Palo

How To Study

Good evening brilliant classmates! Since our first long exam is coming, I want to share this site that can help us in studying. It contain some tips on how to prepare for exams. Though everyone's learning strategy is different, I still urge you to try this one. Good luck and God bless. :)

http://ayurveda.hubpages.com/hub/Tricks-to-tackle-exams

Quiz on Phrasal Verbs

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-quiz.htm


Next week, we will be dealing with phrasal verbs. I am quite sure that most of us are still familiarizing ourselves with the numerous phrasal verbs in the language for our upcoming quiz. I think that one good way to test our knowledge about the said topic is to practice. I posted a site where we can take a short quiz related to the subject matter. Good luck to us!

Practice Prepostions

Since we recently discuss about prepositions, I want to share a link where we can practice its usage. I hope this would help us in reviewing for our first long exam that would include prepositions.

Here is the link: http://www.grammaruntied.com/prepositions/preppractice.html


KYLE PASCUAL

It is a picture got by my sister at SM Supermarket Kadiwa. Instead of "brewed coffee", the storekeeper obviously made it into "broad coffee". Maybe it is just a strategy to attract consumers, however, "broad coffee" is wrong.